Chief Executive Officer

Chatime Malaysia

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Chatime

"Malaysia's first container hotel will be integrated with Chatime's 100th store located in Jalan Delima, Kuala Lumpur," said Chatime Malaysia CEO Bryan Loo.

"We are moving forward with the sustainable concept.
The business model is fairly small and costs are reasonable because the hotel uses shipping containers as its premises.

"We stacked two 6.1m containers on top of each other, with one to be used as the Chatime store and the other the hotel," said Loo, adding that Chatime also planned to integrate its stores with petrol stations.

While the Chatime store is already running, the Chatime Cube by Container aspect will be unveiled in by the middle of next month and is targeted at young adults working in downtown Kuala Lumpur.

Loo unveiled the container hotel venture at a celebration held to mark Chatime Malaysia's 100th store in the country.

"Chatime is the No. 1 tea leader in Malaysia, and the fastest growing tea brand in the world," he said.

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Loo added that Chatime Malaysia was committed to supporting local art initiatives, and had extended its support by featuring art performances and talks across selected Chatime Galleria stores, supporting youth-run community projects, and initiating the Chatime Friends Programme to support and promote budding talents involved in all forms of the arts.

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Loo and exhibition spokesman Driv Loo later launched the Makanlah Buah-Buahan Tempatan Exhibition 2013 - an initiative curated by Little Ideas Everyday to promote local art and local fruit appreciation in the country.

A cool cuppa: 'Malaysians have started to embrace a modern tea-drinking culture,' says Chatime Malaysia's chief executive officer Bryan Loo.

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"Malaysians have started to embrace a modern tea-drinking culture," says Chatime Malaysia's chief executive officer Bryan Loo, 26.
"Whenever we said yum cha in the past, we actually meant 'Hey, let's meet for coffee'.
Now, the phrase has taken on a more literal meaning."

Price could be one factor in tea's popularity.
"Honestly, how many can afford to go to Starbucks all the time?
ponders Loo.

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Here, we tend to see it as a kind of junk food," says Loo.

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"Some have said that once you've tried hot bubble tea, you wouldn't drink a cold one anymore," says Loo.